Jacob Bernhardt Kempf, son of Johann Georg & Susanna Kempf, was baptized 13 May 1736 in Wildberg.
His father moved to Berlin and son Jacob Bernhardt followed.
Jacob Bernhardt Kempf married on 24 April 1764 in the Friedrichskirche in Babelsberg (outside of Podtsdam, southwest of Berlin) to Anna Maria Blum of Switzerland. He is recorded there as a cloth weaver (Zeugmacher und Raschmacher).
The birth of Johann Jacob Kempf, son of Jacob Bernhardt Kempf & Anna Maria Blum, is recorded in Babelsberg on 13 January 1765, baptized 20 January 1765.
Jakob Bernhard Kämpf, his wife Anna Maria, and son Johann Jakob (age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.
Bernhard Kempf, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Johann Jacob, age 2¼; Anna Maria, age ¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Anna Maria died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Urbach on 3 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 55.
In 1788, Bernhard Kämpf and his family moved from Urbach to Schwed. By 1798, they were living in Stahl am Karaman.
Bernhardt Kämpf along with his sons and grandsons are recorded on the 1811 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 31.
In 1797, Heinrich Gottlieb Kempf moved from Stahl am Karaman to Reinwald.
Gottlieb Kempf from Stahl am Karaman is recorded on the 1798 census of Reinwald in Household No. Rw03.
The death of Gottlieb Kempf in 1821 is recorded on the 1834 census of Reinwald in Household No. 2.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Bernhard Kämpf was a weaver while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Bernhard Kempf came from the German region of Württemberg. The 1767 census records that Jakob Bernhard Kämpf came from the German village of Wildberg in the Württemberg region.
- 1811 Stahl am Karaman Census (Household No. 31).
- 1834 Reinwald Census (Household No. 2).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 658.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Rw03, Sk16, Sk31, Mv2816, Mv2901.
- Parish register of Friedrichskirche in Babelsberg.
- Parish register of Wildberg.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 283.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5221.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2022-2025.
David F. Schmidt
Brent Mai